Here's How 'Quantum Leap' Depicted Gay Rights In The Milary In 1992 | HuffPost Voic

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• MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY
• HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992

MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY

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“I’m upset wh [the alliance] bee I thk the script do not slur gays, ” Dunn, who was openly gay, told the Chigo Tribune. “I have the opportuny of gettg on prime-time televisn a story on gay bashg and outg.

HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992

Debate over “ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ” ― the sce-repealed policy banng gay and lbian people om servg the U. Tommy/Beckett disvers that his iend, Phillip (Sean O’Bryan), has been expelled om their naval amy bee he intifi as gay. By the ncln of the episo, Tommy mt prevent Phillip om beg murred a hate crime and, dog so, prove to the naval amy that s l prohibg gay recs are wrong.

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